Dota 2 harassment

I just don't understand how such a community can be so hateful. I join a match designed for people who have never played a Dota style game but clearly people who have experience are selecting that option. Then, when the game starts, I'm trying to learn what to do, to try and get an understanding of how to win. Instead, I am completely dominated by a man who cannot be killed and am berated by my teammates for asking how to do certain things. Is there something that I need to select in order to actually play with people who have never played or am I just never going to be able to play without being called names and yelled at?

This is obviously my opinion, but you should never take any shit from people because you're playing a multiplayer game you're new at.

My strategy against people that refuse to leave you alone is just to immediately mute them once you've identified a troll. Just insta-muta. You'll be less distracted which will help you focus on learning the basics of the game.

Once in game go to the learn tab and learn as much as you can about a character. Once you decide which you like you should create a custom game with bots and just test out the character a bit more to get the feel for the game and if you really like the character. Once you have picked who you want to play as you should go to the watch and find a game where someone is playing the character you want to be. Watch them for a bit. See what they by how they level and learn from them. Then you are ready to start an actual game and have a good idea what to do.

This was the exact same experience I had when I first played HoN. There are "Noobs Only" games created for the sole purpose of experienced players getting easy competition. MOBA games tend to have HORRIBLE gaming communities. I haven't really played any of the Modern Warfare games, but I can't imagine the community could be any worse.

I had done some homework. I had watched several matches and read up on a few characters. I specifically joined a beginners match. I did what I saw in the matches and asked questions. No answers we given instead I was belittled. Regardless, your point stands but I feel that even then I would have be chastised. I didn't realize MOBA games were so contentious.

Basically, I can understand being frustrated if your teammates don't know extremely basic things in a newbie match, but even then one would assume that they are all in it to learn and would benefit more by sharing tactics.

That said, it's been my experience (in other pvp environments) that people who rage the hardest are often the most incompetent. It's really hard when you are new to build confidence when people who appear to know what they're doing are yelling at you, but if you push through you'll (often) find how wrong those people actually were.

i understand Valve wanting customer response towards their new products by letting those with some knowledge of the game get early access to the beta. the only flaw in that is that new players like OP and myself who when eventually gets into the beta have to deal with players who are already familiar with Dota/HoN/LoL and the truly newbs to these games are basically thrown into the deep end of the pool. i filled out the survey honestly (no experience with Dota-style gameplay whatsoever) and still havent gotten a beta key. from the way its going i'll probably be so behind with the game that it'll feel like a newb picking up Dwarf Fortress.

Dota2 just sucks. I had the same. Even if you played other MOBAs before. Dota2 is just out of this world. Range Atts are flying over my whole monitor and further and I am playing on 1920x1080 resolution while completly zoomed out. I don't know what this game is going to do with such a shit balance, but I know that I am not going to play this game. I just got the invite today and made one game and it is totaly broken. Even LoL completly beginner can do more then in this game.

I don't know what this game is going to do with such a shit balance, but I know that I am not going to play this game. I just got the invite today and made one game and it is totaly broken.

Game is well balanced, you just can't expect to understand everything from the get-go when most of the beginner-helpful features aren't even in yet and the beta population is limited so there won't be as many beginners.

I played MOBA for 4 years (not constantly within this period and not only one game) and DOTA2 got the highest skill requirements to even start or it is just totaly broken. For me, the camera is totaly off. I cant even see enough to get minions, enemy champion and my own champion on the screen. I am missing always one of those all the time. Then the trololol melee can't compete with range champions when they are in one lane. Ranges can easily outrange your tower while shooting from the jungle on you. You can't creep because if you get close to one minion, range champions will hit you with autoattacks and spells over range that you can't even close with gapcloser spells (if your champion at least have one) and then they can kill you with 5 spells anyways. Then out of all, I didn't even find the port back option even with hitting every key.

By MOBA experience you mean LoL experience right? Well LoL experience means jack shit when it comes to DotA, Dota 2 or HoN.

Then out of all, I didn't even find the port back option even with hitting every key.

There isn't one. Again, this isn't LoL. If you want to play LoL then play LoL but don't expect Dota to be LoL. It's like asking for health regeneration in Counter Strike because you're used to Call of Duty, it's just nonsense.

I said I played for 4 years, LoL is out for 2 years and I am only playing it for 1 year now. So what do you expect were the other 3 years before. Guess right, it was not LoL. And comparing FPS with MOBA, I don't need to go on with that but I know what you want to say. I never said that I want a second LoL. And I still stay with that Dota2 is total bullshit. You will have a lot of people changing from LoL to Dota2. So guess what? They will ALL have the same issue and will drop it after a week because there is no way of progress in a broken game that you can only play when you already mastered it. Way to go.